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The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 2024

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The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

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Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Counterpunch

What We Owe the Greek - Prologue We owe the Greeks our desire to be the best and most powerful people in the world: There’s nothing more Greek than striving for excellence, choo...
jobsanger

Trump Is Becoming More Vulnerable -
Dissident Voice

Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack and Iran’s Retaliation - The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint. Assassi...
Mediaite

Jon Stewart Mocks Trump’s ‘Gettysburg, Wow’ Story: ‘Plagiarized Almost Directly from My Seventh Grade Book Report’ - Jon Stewart mercilessly roasted Donald Trump over the former president's re-telling of the Battle of Gettysburg. The post Jon Stewart Mocks Trump’s ‘Gett...
Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3241: Hooker’s Green - Episode: 3241 Green with Immortality. Today, we go green with immortality.
Crooked Media

Supreme Court Could Help Trump in Jan 6 Obstruction Case - The post Supreme Court Could Help Trump in Jan 6 Obstruction Case appeared first on Crooked Media.
Al Jazeera English

Behind India’s Manipur conflict: A tale of drugs, armed groups and politics - The drug trade has played a significant role in political landscape as well as in heightening the conflict in Manipur.
Informed Comment

Shadow War no more: With Direct Warfare between Israel and Iran, is there any going Back? - By Javed Ali, University of Michigan | – For decades, Iran and Israel have been engaged in a “shadow war.” Falling short of direct military confrontation, ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds - Supreme court ruling left more than 90% of state’s surface waters with no pollution protections, since they don’t run continuously New Mexico’s rivers, w...
Antiwar.com

Biden’s Irresponsible War Doctrine Led to Iran’s Attack on Israel - The Biden administration seems to be consistently adopting a policy of attempting to satisfy its foreign policy objectives by nurturing wars being fought...
Alternet

'Dishonest characterization': CNN host grills GOP rep 'fine with Russia steamrolling over Ukraine' - Ahead of House Speaker Mike Johnson's potential negotiation with Democrats on the US Senate approved bipartisan $60 billion Ukrainian aid package, a Repu...
Ian Welsh

The Standard Conditions Peaceful Or Violent Revolution, Collapse and Coups - [image: The Standard Conditions Peaceful Or Violent Revolution, Collapse and Coups] We’ve discussed this before: 1. fiscal inability; 2. an elite ...
World Socialist Web Site

Rank-and-file forum discusses Australian Labor government’s pro-business and war restructuring of education - The Albanese government’s Universities Accord cannot be separated from Labor’s whole pro-business agenda, its commitment to US war plans and its complicity...
The Hill

New Hybrid PAC looks to help naturalized citizens, Muslim candidates run for federal office - A newly formed progressive hybrid Political Action Committee (PAC) is looking to support Muslim candidates and naturalized citizens who want to run for fed...
Techdirt.

Bandai Namco Sends Threat Letter To Modding Site Over Supposed Trademark Issues - Here we go again. There seems to be a thing happening among a select few big name video game publishers that have decided for some reason that they want to...
Daily Dot

‘Ma’am please take me to my destination’: Uber driver’s car runs out of gas with a passenger in the car - [image: Uber driver’s car runs out of gas with a passenger in the car] A woman went viral on TikTok after sharing the hilarious chain of events that occu...
Popular Resistance

After 40 Years, Indigenous Genocide Survivors In Guatemala Seek Justice - In Guatemala, during the government of Fernando Romeo Lucas García from 1978 to 1982, genocidal acts, sexual violence and other crimes against humanity w...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

INVITATION: Student-led SEAT24 Summit @ Book People on Sat. April 20 & at the Texas State Capitol on Sun. April 21, 2024 - *Friends,* *I'm thrilled to announce that Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) is here in Austin, Texas on Friday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21st...
Progressive.org

Lessons from the Progressive Campaign of 1924 - The challenges of today are eerily similar to those highlighted by Robert M. La Follette 100 years ago, writes Richard Drake.
Mediagazer

Google's Jigsaw expands Perspective API, its set of ML tools for identifying toxic comments, to help rank posts based on seven new attributes, including nuance (Billy Perrigo/TIME) - Billy Perrigo / TIME: *Google's Jigsaw expands Perspective API, its set of ML tools for identifying toxic comments, to help rank posts based on seven new...
Ballot Access News

Unity Party of Colorado Nominates Cornel West for President - On April 13, the Unity Party of Colorado, which is ballot-qualified, nominated Cornel West for president. See this story from Independent Political Report....
Courthouse News

Local governments seek to avoid trial in California child removal case - A mother claims government workers used falsehoods and omissions to get a judge to take her children from their home.
memeorandum

Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce felony ban on gender-affirming care for minors (Brooke Migdon/The Hill) - Brooke Migdon / The Hill: *Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce felony ban on gender-affirming care for minors* — The Supreme Court granted a request ...
Socialist Alternative

Mass Movement Needed To End The Slaughter In Gaza - Working people around the world have been appalled, enraged, and disgusted at Israel’s actions in Gaza. Public pressure against all governments with any k...
Political Wire

Trump Trade Advisers Plot Dollar Devaluation - “Economic advisers close to former President Donald Trump are actively debating ways to devalue the U.S. dollar if he’s elected to a second term — a dramat...
Election Law Blog

I Spoke to KQED’s “Political Breakdown” Show About the Trump Trial, Voting Rights, and My Book, A Real Right to Vote - You can listen here. The post I Spoke to KQED’s “Political Breakdown” Show About the Trump Trial, Voting Rights, and My Book, A Real Right to Vote appear...
Raw Story

Alina Habba says Trump can't have fixed hush money payments because 'he was in Washington' - Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba offered unique defenses of her client in his criminal hush money case during an appearance on Fox Ne...
Liberation News

Will Israel start a regional war? - There is only one way to remove the threat of a regional war breaking out: End the genocide in Gaza.
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Apr 16–22 - This Week in People’s History, Apr 16–22 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 04/15/2024 - 21:09
The Week

The issue of women and conscription - Ukraine military adviser hints at widening draft to women, as other countries weigh defence options amid global insecurity
Angry Bear

Real retail sales rebound, forecast a continued “soft landing” for jobs growth - – by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog As per usual, real retail sales is one of my favorite indicators, because it gives so much information about the...
Axios

Enraged Democrats mull bailout for Mike Johnson's foreign aid package - House Democrats were incensed at the Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan aid plan House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rolled out on Monday — but they are not rulin...
Workers World

Arizona’s abortion ban: ‘Control and upholding white supremacy’ - [image: Arizona’s abortion ban: ‘Control and upholding white supremacy’] The following statement was made by Monica Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSo...
El Paso Matters

El Paso County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal to retire in June; Christina Sanchez to take office early - Christina Sanchez, who easily won the March 5 Democratic primary and has no challengers in November, will be taking office early to replace the longtime...
ArcaMax

The CIA's Long and Dangerous History of Refusing To Answer Absurdly Obvious Questions - The CIA is so known for its unabashed secrecy that, when it joined Twitter in 2014, its first tweet was: "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our ...
See You In 2020

Russia’s Ukraine action, Oct 7, & now Iran’s retaliation have weakened U.S. hegemony, imperiling the deep state - Above: the new mural in Tehran that reads “The next slap will be harsher” Following the blowback from the War on Terror, and an unprecedented decline i...
Brad Blog

Trump's First Criminal Trial, for Cheating to Win in 2016, Begins in NY: 'BradCast' 4/15/2024 - After a number of quick news headline since our previous BradCast last week, it's on to the biggest story of the day: the first day of the first criminal t...
Sludge

AIPAC-Tied DMFI Raises More From Private Equity Execs - Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) super PAC brought in $418,000 in a new FEC filing, most of it given by a handful of private equity executives and inv...
Slate

O.J. Simpson’s Life, Death, and Cultural Legacy -
San Antonio Report

Growing ‘femtech’ sector part of BioMedSA’s annual startup pitch fest - [image: Riti Sharan works as a staff scientist at Texas Biomedical Research Institute.]BioFest Invest pitches have raised $69 million so far, with $59 mill...
Vox

The Supreme Court’s confusing new anti-trans decision, explained - [image: People stand holding signs in front of the Supreme Court building, including “Protect Trans Youth.”] Activists for transgender rights gather in fr...
CultureMap Houston

Texans legend Andre Johnson celebrates HOF election with star-studded, champagne-fueled bash - Houston Texans legend Andre Johnson celebrated his election to the Pro Football Hall of a Fame with a lavish party at nightclub and restaurant Ciel on Sun...
Southeast Texas Record

April 8: Harris County Civil Court docket for "other injury or damage" cases - The following cases categorized as "other injury or damage" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on April 8. All case details are allegati...
SCOTUSblog

Court allows Idaho to generally enforce ban on gender-transition care for minors - [image: Court allows Idaho to generally enforce ban on gender-transition care for minors]The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Idaho to tempora...
Texas Monthly

Boban Marjanović, Hero, Missed a Free Throw So NBA Fans Could Have Free Chicken - The Houston Rockets backup center waved to the crowd and said “Chicken’s on me!” before clanking the shot that guaranteed fans Chick-fil-A.
Texas Standard

The worlds of two Texas women collide after failed abortion attempts lead to adoption - Adoption is “an increasing choice in the wake of abortion bans,” says Washington Post reporter Amber Ferguson, who spent a year working on the women’s story.
OpEd News

2024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 3 - The Real Drug War - This column presents Section 1, Chapter 3, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Cont...
Capital & Main

Climate + Young Voters = Biden Victory, Right? It’s More Complicated Than That. - *Dissatisfaction with the president’s climate agenda and cynicism over politics in general may erode millennial and Gen-Z support.* The post Climate + Yo...
The Verge

UK mulling potential AI regulation - [image: Digital photo collage of a judge with gavel whose hands has too many fingers.] Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Image...
The Intercept

U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down Most Iran Drones and Missiles - American forces did most of the heavy lifting responding to Iran’s retaliation for the attack on its embassy in Damascus. The post U.S., Not Israel, Shot...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - The kind of thing that could be mentioned in every single story, or not, depending on the demands of objectivity.
Salon.com

"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sentenced: How we got here - The sentence was the maximum that the armorer could have received
San Antonio Current

Erik Cantu, girlfriend sue City of San Antonio in federal court over police shooting - The San Antonio teenager shot multiple times by a San Antonio police officer in Oct. 22, 2022, in a McDonald's parking lot has filed federal civil rights ...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: The Trumpiest Trial - Robert Downen @ The Texas Tribune: Far-right activist Jonathan Stickland starts new group, months after white supremacist scandal The former lawmaker reg...
Deadline Politics

New York Judge Says Donald Trump Can’t Attend Supreme Court Argument Next Week – Update - UPDATE: Jury selection has ended for the day in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, with 11 people so far having gone through an extensive questionnaire. A to...
Futurism

Mistral CEO Says AI Companies Are Trying to Build God - AI-theist The CEO of Europe's brightest new AI firm is calling bull on the quest for so-called "artificial general intelligence" (AGI), which he says is ...
The Root

Viral Video Shows Chicago Police Killing Another Black Driver. You Won't Believe The Officers' Background. - The Chicago Police Department, once again, finds itself at the center of a controversial police-involved shooting: A plainclothes unit is seen on video g...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Trial Marks the Return of “Individual-1” - The justice system finally caught up with Individual-1—a.k.a. Donald J. Trump. On the opening day of Trump’s historic trial for his porn star/hush-money c...
Church and State

The Horrifying Sins of Christianity, Century after Century - Charles Bufe’s 2022 book, "24 Reasons to Abandon Christianity" provides a wealth of information on these realities.
Claytoonz

Trump’s Fair Jury - The first of Donald Trump’s four criminal trials began with jury selections in New York City today. Twelve jurors and six alternates will be chosen from hu...
The Texas Signal

A Primer On The Comstock Act - As abortion continues to play a major role in Texas and national politics, a law from the nineteenth century keeps getting mentioned: the Comstock Act of...
Mondoweiss

Yale students launch hunger strike over school’s connection to Gaza assault - [image: The Old Campus Courtyard of Yale University (Wikimedia)]Over a dozen Yale Students have launched a hunger strike over the school’s complicity in th...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Our New 4/20 Merch and Ongoing Fight for Legalization - For decades, the ACLU has fought against the war on drugs. The criminalization of cannabis has led to far too many unjust incarcerations, which waste cri...
Reform Austin

Homicide Rates Plummet in Texas Cities - The homicide rates in Texas cities have plummeted according to a new report from crime data analyst Jess Asher, published in The Wall Street Journal. In ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Marxist Viewing of Dune: Part Two - The latest movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune, Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve, has set truly intergalactic box office re...
naked capitalism

More Economic Effects of Our Ongoing Covid Pandemic (with Cognitive Dysfunction and the Labor Market) - Are the effects of Long Covid on the workforrce "material"? Plus the labor market, labor force participation, "the economy," etc.
NORML

JAMA Pediatrics: Legalization Laws Linked With Fewer Teens Using Marijuana, Other Intoxicants - [image: Marijuana and Youth Use][image: Marijuana and Youth Use]“Together, results found no net increases in cannabis or, through spillover effects, alco...
Second Nexus

Lindsey Graham Accidentally Tells The Truth About Trump's Criminal Trial In Self-Own For The Ages - Late Monday morning, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham took to his official campaign X account to state his opinion on day one of former G...
Glasstire

Ballet Austin’s “Poe: A Tale of Madness” is a Spectacle Fueled by Collaboration - To create his latest work, a ballet that weaves together Edgar Allan Poe’s life and famous writings, Ballet Austin’s Artistic Director Stephen Mills asse...
First Draft

More Than Just About A Porn Star - No, this is not just a silly trial about Trump paying off a porn star. It's about what kind of country we'll have moving forward.
NPR's Health Shots

Drugmakers' low U.S. taxes belie their high sales - Most of the largest pharmaceutical companies report losing money in the United States, despite the majority of their sales coming from Americans. The resul...
The AltWorld

2009 US Policy Paper Planned Current Israeli-Iranian Tensions - Since October 7, 2023 it would appear a spontaneous chain of events is leading the Middle East […] The post 2009 US Policy Paper Planned Current Israeli-...
Wolf Street

Our Drunken Sailors Binge despite Higher Interest Rates, and the Fed Watches them Nervously - Retail sales by major segment: huge winners (on top: ecommerce and general merchandise retailers), and some big losers.
Earthworks

Organizations Urge Guatemalan Authorities to Respect Self-Determination at La Puya - Last week Earthworks, along with over sixty organizations from around the world, sent a letter to Guatemalan authorities calling for … The post Organiza...
Rio Grande Guardian

Why UTRGV’s senior vice president for research met with the South Texas Alliance of Cities - Mayors with with the South Texas Alliance of Cities were excited to learn of UTRGV's plans to become an R1 university, says Dr. Can (John) Saygin. The po...
Ring of Fire

Florida’s New Social Media Ban Faces First Amendment Challenge In Courts - The state of Florida has passed a major new law that limits social media use for children, banning popular apps for anyone under the age of 14. But can t...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Porn Star Hush Money Case: the Right Trial at the Wrong Time? - In Donald Trump’s hush money trial that begins today, a lot more is at stake than meets the eye.
Novara Media

Spare a Thought for Hilary Cass - [image: hilary cass]After four years, the Cass Review of gender identity services for children and young people was finally released last week. Almost imme...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: Nicaragua takes on Germany over Gaza genocide- an interview with Carlos Argüello Gómez - Nicaraguan lawyer and diplomat Carlos Argüello Gómez speaks to The Grayzone about his case against the German government for its facilitation of Israel’s...
Environment Texas

New grants can make our roadsides bee-friendly - Bees need more habitat. Our highways can help. The post New grants can make our roadsides bee-friendly appeared first on Environment Texas.
Reveal

How Famine and Starvation Could Affect Gazans for Generations to Come - [image: A photo illustration overlays a map of Israel and Gaza with images from the region, including the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.] Research on World Wa...
Project Censored

From East Palestine to Palestine, People Need Help - From East Palestine to Palestine, people need help. In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with East Palestine, OH residents Zsuzsa Gyenes and ...
Undernews

Politics - *Thom Hartmann* -Republicans know most Americans aren’t fans of tax cuts for billionaires, more pollution, deregulation of polluting industries, high-pri...
Daily Howler

We finally watched The Zone of Interest! - *MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2024* *Saying what we saw: *Over the weekend, we finally saw The Zone of Interest. The leading authority on the film offers this overv...
DeSmogBlog

MPs Challenged to Cut Ties with Polluters - A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Lawmakers returning to work today...
Krebs on Security

Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak - The U.S. government is warning that smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used ...
American Prospect

Netanyahu Outplays Biden Yet Again - Today on TAP: Changing the subject from Gaza to Iran with a cynical provocation
Daily Cartoonist

The San Luis Obispo Tribune Ditches Dailies – A McClatchy Trend? - Beginning April 15, 2024 The San Luis Obispo Tribune will reduce the frequency of it print edition, from six days a week down to two days a week. The paper...
Discourse

What Is Wrong With You Psychos - No, we should not bomb Iran right now!!!!
Bonddad

Real retail sales rebound, forecast a continued “soft landing” for jobs growth - * - by New Deal democrat* As per usual, real retail sales is one of my favorite indicators, because it gives so much information about the consumer, ...
MintPress News

Amal Clooney’s Silence on Gaza Shows the Limits Of Liberalism - Amal Clooney's conspicuous silence on Israel's actions in Palestine and Lebanon contrasts sharply with her vocal condemnation of human rights abuses else...
Rewire

How Abortion Rights and Birth Justice Are ‘Inextricably Linked’ - Birth justice advocates say state ballot initiatives protecting abortion rights must also advance the rights of people who give birth. The post How Abort...
Texas Observer

Saving Lone Star Literary Life - Out in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the num...
Democracy Now!

Trump in the Dock: First Criminal Trial of a Former U.S. President Begins Today in NYC - Donald Trump is making history today in New York as the first former U.S. president to stand trial for criminal charges. Trump faces 34 criminal charges of...
The Conversation

Trump’s New York felony charges are going to trial – what the images might show when the business fraud case kicks off - How will Trump act during his upcoming court appearance in Manhattan? Surprises are unlikely, but his body language and expressions can help tell a fuller ...
Space City Weather

This week’s weather will be consistently warm, humid, and mostly cloudy - Summary: After several days of sunny weather, a more southerly flow will take hold of Houston’s weather and that will bring us warm days and nights, mostly...
The Smirking Chimp

Happy Tax Day, and the Coming Fight Over Extending Trump’s Tax Cut -
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Making Billions of Square Feet of Commercial Space Sustainable with CBRE’s Rob Bernard - The built environment, particularly office buildings other urban facilities, are responsible for 39% of the... The post Earth911 Podcast: Making Billions...
Scheerpost.com

Armenian Christians Under Siege By Israel - Jeremy Loffredo visits the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, where a community of Armenian Christians dating back to the 4th century face displacem...
Skeptophilia

Stellar wind, the BOAT, and the Dragon's Egg - Since the news down here on Earth is not looking so good, today we're going to escape to my happy place, which is outer space. We've got three new studie...
The Reality-Based Community

Man United dần trở thành ‘bia đỡ đạn’ tệ nhất bóng đá Châu Âu - Manchester United (MU) đang phải đối mặt với vô số chỉ trích khi họ liên tục trở thành “bia đỡ đạn” cho các đối thủ trong 5 giải đấu hàng đầu châu Âu. Bi...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Melissa Noriega - I have two more interviews for you for the now-elected HCAD Board positions, for which I remind you that election day is May 4 and early voting begins a we...
Progressives Chat

More War! - This coming Saturday [April 20, 2024] marks the 25-year anniversary of the mass shootings and murders at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. It w...
ProPublica

The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked. - by Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. ...
Grist

Your guide to the 2024 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - This year’s gathering of global Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers puts a spotlight on youth.
High Country News

Drilling for oil on public land is about to cost a lot more - Long-awaited Interior Department policy will raise financial assurance and royalty rates. The post Drilling for oil on public land is about to cost a lo...
The Daily Poster

The Defense Industry’s Inside Man In The Pacific Arms Race - A Biden envoy shaped defense policy in the Pacific islands while consulting for a private firm with major interests in the region.
Rallblog

What Will Be Left of Gaza for Trump To Make Worse? - Democrats argue that Trump, who was very in favor of Israel during his presidency, would be even worse for the people of Gaza than Biden, who has totally...
LareDOS

Convoy of electric vehicles stops in Laredo, Tues., Apr. 23 - Featured EVs include Teslas, Kia EV-9 and a Blue Bird schoolbus
Avedon's Sideshow

She fills her drawing book with line - All I know is it was identified as "Bobilo art" and I liked it. My favorite video from this eclipse is not of the sun itself, but of the pinhole camera ...
Common Dreams

First They Came For My Appliances: We Are Here For the Refrigerator Freedom Act - Okay all you naysayers whining shambolic House GOPers aren't doing their job just 'cause they're blocking border solutions, ignoring infrastructure, enab...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: What's Next For Iran/Israel, The Historical Present, Anxiety, and More - We've got a full, full mailbag this time. Much to discuss.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Palestine Congress - Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 14 April 2024 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Some wrestling matches aren't staged. Go out and walk swim the dog. The ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Canal Saint-Martin, Paris (3) - [image: Canal Saint-Martin, Paris]
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Franklin Graham decries Nazi concentration camp, gets reminded about his anti-LGBTQ comments and support of Donald Trump - Folks who follow this blog know how much I despise Franklin Graham. From his vile comments about the LGBTQ community to his basic hypocrisy in supportin...
Idavox

A Change in Tactics? - The Black Bloc has been seen en masse at protests across the United States for...
Debunking Christianity

Has Counter-Apologetics Peaked? By Robert Conner - Everyone old enough to remember that day knows where they were and what they were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001, the day of madness that ma...
The Progressive Wing

4/13-15 Open Thread Tax Weekend - Promoting this video from the thread. It’a anti-war soul song related to tax day. More news, commentary, videos, etc below the jump. Join us in the convers...
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago - April 26, 1999 The big-business media and U.S. officials would have us believe that workers and farmers in the Balkans have been reduced to weeping Albania...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTI-CHOICE WITH A (REALLY BAD) EXPLANATION EDITION. - *Friend of mine alerted me. This is the kind of goofy shit I love.* Yeah, I missed last week’s edition. I offer no apologies. It’s been a long time betwe...
Lowering the Bar

O.J. Simpson Embarks on Long, Slow Bronco Ride Into Eternity - Although that's probably not where it will end up.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

China again ignores Hague’s 2016 South China Sea ruling, blames Philippines for growing tensions - There is no official “promise” between the Philippines and China. Tensions have grown due to “gray-zone” activities by China in the Philippines' EEZ. The s...
Dissent Magazine

The War on Health in Gaza - The Israeli government is restricting access to food in Gaza at the same time as it is destroying healthcare infrastructure. Each process intensifies the...
slacktivist

LBCF: Flirting with disaster - What do you do if you're on an airplane and half of the passengers disappear into thin air? If you're Buck Williams, you make a phone call.
Eater Houston

Food Festival Celebrating Houston’s Diversity Comes to Sugar Land - [image: An image of noodles and meat] There will be plenty of dishes from all over the world at Sugar Land’s first Bazaar Food and Wine festival. | Courte...
Political Garbage Chute

The State of Arizona Just Sent Me the Pink Slip for My Wife’s Uterus - “…my wife and I weren’t planning any excursions through Arizona to begin with. However, now that I’m going to be bogged down with extra paperwork if I do...
Bud Kennedy

Texas Republicans want to punish abortion like baby-killing. Prison for women, or death | Opinion - Does Texas’ 2021 abortion law need to be “straightened out”? Then why would Donald Trump say that about Arizona’s law? Texas’ staunchly anti-abortion Repub...
Duck of Minerva

Sebastian Kaempf - Professor Sebastian Kaempf of the University of Queensland joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast this week. Seb grew up in Germany, with the fall of the Berlin...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024 - Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/12/2024 - 06:05 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Free & Equal

A look at the states preventing more voices and choices from being on the ballot - It is no surprise that Republicans and Democrats are trying to stop third-party and independent presidential candidates from being on the ballot. Each st...
Morning Consult

Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions - The post Using Crowd-Sourced Community Identities to Revisit Urban, Suburban, and Rural Definitions appeared first on Morning Consult.
Texas Freedom Network

Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, A Faith Leader Built, Sustained, and Guided by Community - Meet Reverend Chris Jimmerson, the Co-Lead Minister at one of Just Texas’ Reproductive Freedom Congregations, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of ...
Bracing Views

There Is Only One Spaceship Earth - W.J. Astore Freeing the World from the Deadly Shadow of Genocide and Ecocide Also at TomDispatch.com When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (o...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

An Electoral College Time Capsule - The six presidential elections held during the 25-year history of the Center for Politics were often close, although most states voted predictably. As pa...
TXElects

Endangered Incumbents - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *MAR. 11 2024* *Endangered Incumbents* Incumbents were more than endangered, it turns out. A record nine R...
Robert Reich

Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?It’s a paradox. Inflation... - *Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?* It’s a paradox. Inflation is dropping but prices aren’t coming down. How can this be? Because corporations hav...
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: April 2024 - Lots of articles to share this month. Health in the Ace Community (2021 Survey) | Ace Community Survey – Full disclosure: I’m sharing this because I’m a di...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremism Headlines: Book bans, conspiracy theories, FBI building attack - Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caug...
Ecosophia

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 11 - With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the mod...
Democracy Chronicles

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Edinburg Politics

Edinburg City Attorney Omar Ochoa, champion of open government, to leave position in order to focus more on his successful private legal practice - Longtime Edinburg City Attorney Omar Ochoa, who has used his extensive legal expertise to provide ongoing reports to the public about state laws and polici...
The NM Political Report

Could business rooftops increase access to solar energy in low-income neighborhoods? - Amid the energy transition, researchers are looking for ways to ensure low-income communities are not left behind. Researchers from Stanford University ...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The Measure of Intelligence - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Did you catch the interactions between the animals? That was entirely made up by Nadine, and I love it. Donald T...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Covering clashes on campus as academic freedom challenges mount - Academic freedom in higher education is facing increased scrutiny at colleges and universities nationwide. It’s a story about campuses big and small, pu...
Campaign for America's Future

Why Do My Groceries Cost So Much? - Giant corporations and billionaires want to keep their taxes low and the prices we pay high. That’s why they want Trump back in office. In 2004, I was a si...
Web of Debt

By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge - The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: The Feast of the Arms Industry - We analyze Nikita Teryoshin’s photos lampooning arms expos while applauding the rare window into the massive weapons marketplace. The post Chatting the P...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2024 - Walmart had at least another sixteen shootings in March of 2024, including at least six causing one death each, and a total of at least seven more injur...
Media Lens

‘Genocide Enablers’: Gaza And The Corporate Media - A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up t...
Unlimited Hangout

Debt From Above: The Carbon Credit Coup - Latin America is quietly being forced into a carbon market scheme through regional contractual obligations – enforced by the satellites of a US intellige...
Seeing the Forest

Easier Than Governing - This post originally appeared at Government Cheese: Chronicling the collapse of democracy Modern society is complex, vast, complicated. Governing modern so...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: When Chevron Owns Your News - A brief look at The Richmond Standard and what happens when a giant oil company produces the only news website in a California company town. The post Nina...
BEYONDbones

Eclipse Mania | April 2024 Sky Happenings - Editor’s Note: The Total Solar Eclipse is emerging over Texas and HMNS Astronomer James Wooten is giving us the details down to the minute. Jupiter is lo...
ExChristian.Net

The Problem of the Satanic Panic - [image: A series of stories in the Provo Daily Herald in July and August 1985 warned of satanism in Utah County. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, hosted ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro poll. - Since we are so inundated with polls leading up to this November's election, I figured I would conduct my own internal polling on the subject. Here goe...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Felony Fraud Charges to be Dismissed - Felony securities fraud charges against Attorney General Ken Paxton to be dropped after nine years. Read the news at the Texas Tribune.
Dos Centavos

Los Blogs de Tejas – TPA Round-Up - The Texas Progressive Alliance would like for just one of the cases against the Former Guy to get a firm court date and stick with it as it brings you this...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS | POLICE AUDITORS | How police deny us our rights: A view from YouTube - By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 20, 2023 In 40 years as an attorney, I have encountered the police in many contexts. I have received three warning...
Greg Palast

Before Scorsese’s film, before Grann’s book, there was a poemElise Paschen reads Wi’-gi-e, the inspiration for Killers of the Flower Moon - Osage poet Elise Paschen reads "Wi’-gi-e", the poem which gave the title to the film and book, *Killers of the Flower Moon*. We filmed her special reading ...
The Disorder Of Things

Sex, Power & Play at Europe’s Largest Arms Fair - A guest post from Nico Edwards. Nico is the author of the new World Peace Foundation report Resisting Green Militarism: Building Movements for Peace and Ec...
TalkLeft

State of the Union: Will Biden Resonate? - Americans have been dealt a hand with two candidates, neither of whom they particularly think should be President. Nonetheless, barring Trump being crimi...
Equality Texas

Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region - Title: Community Engagement and Advocacy Strategist, Gulf Coast Region Organization: Equality Texas and Equality Texas Foundation Position Type: Full Tim...
Grits for Breakfast

Texas District Attorney, CCA races and the future of Texas criminal-justice reform - The ouster of Kim Ogg in Houston and the re-election of José Garza in Austin -- coupled with the ouster of 3 members of the Government Always Wins faction ...
Land Destroyer

Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It - *March 5, 2024* (Brian Berletic - NEO) - Both Ukraine and its Western supporters are raising the alarm over Ukraine’s military manpower shortage and the ...
Moron Majority

The Only Book Donald Trump Has Ever Read -
Green Pages News

Green seeks Student Seat on West Virginia University Board of Governors - By Mike Feinstein, Advisor, Green Pages Editoral Board . Matthew Kolb, 21, is running for West Virginia University Student Government Association President...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Why Houston Floods, According to Flood Control - It Rains a Lot! What Can Flood Control Do? March 3, 2024 For years the Harris County Flood Control District has been giving public presentations that inclu...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Texas Watch

In the News: USAA members injured in car wrecks battling San Antonio insurer over medical payments - Texas Watch Executive Director Ware Wendell was quoted in *San Antonio Express-News* staff writer Patrick Danner's recent article on the struggle for US...
Dandelion Salad

Chris Hedges: Day X: Justice for Assange with Stella Assange, Jen Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson - Dandelion Salad February 19, 2024 with Chris Hedges “Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Ve Vill Bury You! - Da, komrade, and then ve are takink kare of Moose and Sqvirrel! Oh, f’crissake, are they shittin’ us with this mess? Are they really that desperate to take...
nonsite.org

A Davidsonian version of Dissemination and Abandonment - Speech and writing actions differ from their products. We can call the actions utterings and inscribings. An uttering’s product is an utterance. An inscrib...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel is a European Invention & Gaza Genocide Was Made in West, w/ MEPs Clare Daly & Mick Wallace - Why does Europe support Israel so much? What does Europe gain from the occupation of Palestine and further escalation across the Middle East? How much of t...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Stinque

TRUMP: MACHINE GUNNING ORPHANAGES AND CONVENTS BY ME IS CONSTITUTIONAL AND SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME ERECT WITHOUT PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE! - Big fat twisted Alzheimeroid Donald Trump sent his lawyers to claim he is entitled to machine gun orphanages, maternity hospitals and convents as long as...
New Progressive Alliance

2023 Annual Report - - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at the New Progressive Alliance, Leftist Third Party and Independent Ca...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Border/Lines

A note to BORDER/LINES readers - Dear readers, Some four years ago, we started BORDER/LINES as an effort to be something of a bridge, one between the often surface-level daily coverage of ...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Two Party Opera

Drums of War - I live-streamed the process of making this comic, here is part 1: And part 2, the thrilling conclusion:
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Scenes from the 2023 State Fair of Texas - More than 2.3 million people made their way to Fair Park to attend the State Fair of Texas this year, and photographer Jason Janik found a few of them wi...
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
GreenSource DFW

Irving home featured on National Solar Tour - *This state-of-the-art energy efficient home at 1025 Lane St in Irving will be open to the public Friday and Sunday.* Oct. 6, 2023 There are only two ho...
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
The Socialist

The Global Landscape of IP Law: Navigating International IP Protection - Intellectual Property (IP) protection has become more crucial than ever in our increasingly interconnected and digital world. Businesses, creators, and inn...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
CT's short stories and novelettes

At the Gate of Heaven - As one newly arrived in Heaven, the gatekeeper questioned me, that he might know which of the seven realms I might be the best suited for. Start from th...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
The Mind Unleashed

Experts Say “Crazed Sharks” Might Be Consuming Cocaine Dropped Off Florida Coast - The phenomenon of “cocaine sharks” is taking the spotlight, potentially providing the narrative for the next sensational marine-based disaster film. Resear...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Bayou Brief

Six Degrees of Babe Huey - Did Huey Long and Babe Ruth ever meet?
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Modern Democracy

Will the Supreme Court Swing the 2022 Midterms? - Recent commentary on the Supreme Court’s stay order in Merrill v. Milligan has focused on what the decision portends for the future of Section 2 d...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Dorf on Law

Between Tamago and Potemkin - *by Michael C. Dorf* There's an episode of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* in which Larry arrives at the new house of his manager Jeff and Jeff's wife Susie, who...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
The Metaphor Project

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 6/04/22 - Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigor...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
The Greanville Post

Socialism and Its Discontents—Has communism ever worked? - Caleb's chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. In this episode...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

Hatred as a factor in presidential politics - *M*ake what you will of this. In the modern era of partisan polarization, which can be dated back to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, only the presid...
Consortium News

A Modest Proposal for a US Labor Day Every Month - Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it migh...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Truthout

Energy Transfer Partners’ Security Team Sinks Water Protectors’ Boats - ETP's security team was notorious for its brutal tactics at Standing Rock.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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